Non Threatening Boys*: Filmmaker Rowan West Haber on the Tentative Transmasc Resurrection of ‘It’s Pat’
You may or may not remember Pat. I, for one, watched the Pat skits every Saturday, growing up with my bisexual dad in his tiny cottage in West Hollywood, as the Santa Ana winds breezed through the window and made our wooden beaded curtains into a kind of urban windchime.
A character created by comedian Julia Sweeney on Saturday Night Live in the early nineties, Pat wore a western shirt, and had strange mannerisms. The nexus of the bit was that they were either a boy or a girl, and everyone in their midst was dying to know which. Unbridled PANIC ensued in response to their undefined gender, and everyone laughed along in unison.
